When Gutenberg printed his first books he had no intention that they should be portable. They were made, after all, to compete with very weighty （and often chained）illuminated manuscripts. The idea that you could walk around with a book did not come until l500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled upon this revolutionaryand liberatingnotion. The first paperlight newspaper(Johann Carolus’s The Relation in Strasbourg）did not follow until l609. In the computer world the same revolutionfrom heavy main frame to near weightlessnessis well under way. Today’ s portables seem miracles of design and power. But, even as far as they have come, compare them with the ultralight, ultracheap, ultra high quality informationbearing attributes of paper, the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be updated. Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could typeset itself by means of remotely fed data. The key elements of such an entity are already a reality at the Massachusetts Instltute of Technology’s（MIT） Media Laboratory, enabling the prospect of portable information devices which are essentially weightless and omnipresent. The key breakthrough, which will start to be seen widely in l998, is a new type of ink： electronic ink. This magical stuff can be coated on to any surface, but, unlike normal ink, it can be electronically set. It is instantly changeable, erasable and resettable. The ink itself, a polymer material, is not expensive and requires no electronic power to maintain its image.
This spells the beginning of the end of the published book. The conventional publishing industry is already dying. Books, magazines and newspapers have reached a plateau of sales in America of about＄100 billion a year. Sales of fiatpanel displays, the basis of all notebook computers and the superthin screens which are beginning to populate our desktops, are growing rapidly with sales approaching ＄30 billion, but such screens are still heavy, very expensive and powerhungry. Electronic ink enables the two worlds, conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays, to be merged.
This radical change coincides happily with another： the exponential growth of our ability to store information electronically at a rapidly dwindling cost. The arrival, that is, of compact data storage. Consider this. One book consumes about 1 Mb of data in a conventional, uncompressed form. But squeeze the data into a compact form, and a disk drive the size of a credit card holds 350 books.
Questions:
1. Who is the first person noted that books could be protable?
______ ______ _______ ______ ______
______ ______ _______ ______ ______.
2. Electronic paper can solve the problem that ______ ______ ______ ______ ____________
______ ______ ______ ______.
3. “Prospect of portable information devices” refers to ______ ______ ______
______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
4. What results in the ending of the published book?
______ ______ ______ ______ ______
______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
5. According to the 3rd Para, it is inferred that the coventional publish
ing
industry will disappear ______ ______ ______ ______ ____________ ______ ______ ______ ______.
答案部分
短文大意
文章以便攜式書(shū)籍的出現(xiàn)為引子，指出在電腦領(lǐng)域，也正進(jìn)行著一場(chǎng)從沉重的主機(jī)計(jì)算機(jī)
到幾乎無(wú)重量的便攜式電腦的革命。文章告訴我們，電子紙的出現(xiàn)，尤其是隨著電子進(jìn)入
應(yīng)用的實(shí)際問(wèn)題：電子墨水得以突破后，使傳統(tǒng)出版業(yè)遭到危機(jī)，最終會(huì)帶來(lái)出版業(yè)的變革，傳統(tǒng)的出版物與電子信息顯示合為一體。
1.【參考答案】Aldus Manutius
【解題技巧】 正確理解句子內(nèi)容是本題的惟一出路。
【詳細(xì)解答】 本文問(wèn)的是誰(shuí)最早提出書(shū)可以便攜這一觀念。文中第一段第三句話：The idea that you could walk around with a book not come until 1500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled…notion,句中，this revolutionary—and liberating—noti
on,指的即是“they should be protable”因而，Aldus Manutius是最早提出這一觀點(diǎn)的人。
2.【參考答案】the information on paper cannot be updated
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)比較得出結(jié)論是本題的捷徑。
【詳細(xì)解答】文中第二段出現(xiàn)了：Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could
typeset itself of romotely fed data：電子紙可通過(guò)遙控?cái)?shù)據(jù)排版。而在這句話的前面
，是有關(guān)紙的評(píng)價(jià)：the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be u
pdated.這樣一比，電子紙與普通紙的區(qū)別就很明顯了，而電子紙的功能恰恰是普通紙所做
不到的，答案由此而來(lái)。
3.【參考答案】electronic paper
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)上下文，找出指代的內(nèi)容是本題的關(guān)鍵。
【詳細(xì)解答】本題問(wèn)的是：便攜式信息裝置指代什么。對(duì)于這樣的問(wèn)題，一定要聯(lián)系上
下文，在第二段中，只要能發(fā)現(xiàn) a piece of electronic paper,such an entity與protable imformation devices 的邏輯關(guān)系，便不難發(fā)現(xiàn)，這段話想說(shuō)明的正是：由于麻省理工學(xué)
院的多媒體實(shí)驗(yàn)室將電子紙的實(shí)踐問(wèn)題得以解決，才使用電子紙的前景樂(lè)觀，因此，答案為
electronic paper.
4.【參考答案】the breakthrough of electronic ink
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)段與段之間承上啟下的關(guān)鍵問(wèn)題找出答案。
【詳細(xì)解答】 第三段的首句：This spells the beginning of the end of the published book.本題的問(wèn)話其實(shí)就是這句話的變形。由于這句話處于承上啟下的位置，那么“this”所指，必然在上面一段出現(xiàn)。第二段中指出：The key breakthrough,…is a new type of ink.這就說(shuō)明，在電子紙實(shí)踐將隨著電子墨水的突破而有所發(fā)展，之后，又用了相當(dāng)?shù)钠榻B電子墨水的特性。因此，是電子墨水的突破使電子紙獲得實(shí)質(zhì)的進(jìn)展，而這將導(dǎo)致書(shū)籍出版的結(jié)束?；卮鸨绢}時(shí)，仍要盡可能運(yùn)用文中原有的詞匯。
5.【參考答案】conventional publishing on paper and electronic information
displays are merged
【解題技巧】 運(yùn)用段落中已知的信息去推測(cè)。
【詳細(xì)解答】這是一個(gè)典型的推理型的問(wèn)題。這種問(wèn)題往往涉及幾句話甚至整段話的內(nèi)
容。第三段一開(kāi)始指出：傳統(tǒng)出版業(yè)正在走向滅亡，雖然平板顯示器的銷(xiāo)售突飛猛進(jìn)，然而
，它的本身也存在著明顯的缺限。而電子墨水的出現(xiàn)，可以使這兩件各有所長(zhǎng)的東西構(gòu)成合
理的結(jié)合成為可能?？傻弥簜鹘y(tǒng)出版物若消失，必然在兩者結(jié)合之時(shí)。
回答這個(gè)問(wèn)題時(shí)，也應(yīng)盡量使用句子的原話：conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays,to be merged.而稍作變形。
This spells the beginning of the end of the published book. The conventional publishing industry is already dying. Books, magazines and newspapers have reached a plateau of sales in America of about＄100 billion a year. Sales of fiatpanel displays, the basis of all notebook computers and the superthin screens which are beginning to populate our desktops, are growing rapidly with sales approaching ＄30 billion, but such screens are still heavy, very expensive and powerhungry. Electronic ink enables the two worlds, conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays, to be merged.
This radical change coincides happily with another： the exponential growth of our ability to store information electronically at a rapidly dwindling cost. The arrival, that is, of compact data storage. Consider this. One book consumes about 1 Mb of data in a conventional, uncompressed form. But squeeze the data into a compact form, and a disk drive the size of a credit card holds 350 books.
Questions:
1. Who is the first person noted that books could be protable?
______ ______ _______ ______ ______
______ ______ _______ ______ ______.
2. Electronic paper can solve the problem that ______ ______ ______ ______ ____________
______ ______ ______ ______.
3. “Prospect of portable information devices” refers to ______ ______ ______
______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
4. What results in the ending of the published book?
______ ______ ______ ______ ______
______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
5. According to the 3rd Para, it is inferred that the coventional publish
ing
industry will disappear ______ ______ ______ ______ ____________ ______ ______ ______ ______.
答案部分
短文大意
文章以便攜式書(shū)籍的出現(xiàn)為引子，指出在電腦領(lǐng)域，也正進(jìn)行著一場(chǎng)從沉重的主機(jī)計(jì)算機(jī)
到幾乎無(wú)重量的便攜式電腦的革命。文章告訴我們，電子紙的出現(xiàn)，尤其是隨著電子進(jìn)入
應(yīng)用的實(shí)際問(wèn)題：電子墨水得以突破后，使傳統(tǒng)出版業(yè)遭到危機(jī)，最終會(huì)帶來(lái)出版業(yè)的變革，傳統(tǒng)的出版物與電子信息顯示合為一體。
1.【參考答案】Aldus Manutius
【解題技巧】 正確理解句子內(nèi)容是本題的惟一出路。
【詳細(xì)解答】 本文問(wèn)的是誰(shuí)最早提出書(shū)可以便攜這一觀念。文中第一段第三句話：The idea that you could walk around with a book not come until 1500 when Aldus Manutius stumbled…notion,句中，this revolutionary—and liberating—noti
on,指的即是“they should be protable”因而，Aldus Manutius是最早提出這一觀點(diǎn)的人。
2.【參考答案】the information on paper cannot be updated
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)比較得出結(jié)論是本題的捷徑。
【詳細(xì)解答】文中第二段出現(xiàn)了：Imagine a piece of electronic paper which could
typeset itself of romotely fed data：電子紙可通過(guò)遙控?cái)?shù)據(jù)排版。而在這句話的前面
，是有關(guān)紙的評(píng)價(jià)：the only problem is that the information on paper cannot be u
pdated.這樣一比，電子紙與普通紙的區(qū)別就很明顯了，而電子紙的功能恰恰是普通紙所做
不到的，答案由此而來(lái)。
3.【參考答案】electronic paper
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)上下文，找出指代的內(nèi)容是本題的關(guān)鍵。
【詳細(xì)解答】本題問(wèn)的是：便攜式信息裝置指代什么。對(duì)于這樣的問(wèn)題，一定要聯(lián)系上
下文，在第二段中，只要能發(fā)現(xiàn) a piece of electronic paper,such an entity與protable imformation devices 的邏輯關(guān)系，便不難發(fā)現(xiàn)，這段話想說(shuō)明的正是：由于麻省理工學(xué)
院的多媒體實(shí)驗(yàn)室將電子紙的實(shí)踐問(wèn)題得以解決，才使用電子紙的前景樂(lè)觀，因此，答案為
electronic paper.
4.【參考答案】the breakthrough of electronic ink
【解題技巧】 通過(guò)段與段之間承上啟下的關(guān)鍵問(wèn)題找出答案。
【詳細(xì)解答】 第三段的首句：This spells the beginning of the end of the published book.本題的問(wèn)話其實(shí)就是這句話的變形。由于這句話處于承上啟下的位置，那么“this”所指，必然在上面一段出現(xiàn)。第二段中指出：The key breakthrough,…is a new type of ink.這就說(shuō)明，在電子紙實(shí)踐將隨著電子墨水的突破而有所發(fā)展，之后，又用了相當(dāng)?shù)钠榻B電子墨水的特性。因此，是電子墨水的突破使電子紙獲得實(shí)質(zhì)的進(jìn)展，而這將導(dǎo)致書(shū)籍出版的結(jié)束?；卮鸨绢}時(shí)，仍要盡可能運(yùn)用文中原有的詞匯。
5.【參考答案】conventional publishing on paper and electronic information
displays are merged
【解題技巧】 運(yùn)用段落中已知的信息去推測(cè)。
【詳細(xì)解答】這是一個(gè)典型的推理型的問(wèn)題。這種問(wèn)題往往涉及幾句話甚至整段話的內(nèi)
容。第三段一開(kāi)始指出：傳統(tǒng)出版業(yè)正在走向滅亡，雖然平板顯示器的銷(xiāo)售突飛猛進(jìn)，然而
，它的本身也存在著明顯的缺限。而電子墨水的出現(xiàn)，可以使這兩件各有所長(zhǎng)的東西構(gòu)成合
理的結(jié)合成為可能?？傻弥簜鹘y(tǒng)出版物若消失，必然在兩者結(jié)合之時(shí)。
回答這個(gè)問(wèn)題時(shí)，也應(yīng)盡量使用句子的原話：conventional publishing on paper and electronic information displays,to be merged.而稍作變形。